AuthorTopic: Looks the goods for me (Read 3167 times)

Worn out with M$Have been trying out the various distrosComplete nerf at using Linux so far; trying to catch up

Very much like the looks of Vector SOHO and support and am trying it in VM: very excited

No coder me: humble end user. I'm really hoping this goes wellInstalled from .iso in VMWorkstation: all good: rocket speed All goodies seem to be working Avoided the video issue after failed install and then googling

Just having some "issues" with installing Xorg I think from .isoAlso issues with VMWare tools.

I wouldn't be able to help you with the vmtools problem, but hopefully somebody will come along with the answer.I use VirtualBox, which gives me no problems with Vector (except that you shouldn't pick the X auto configuration in the installer).

I know nothing about Virtual Machines, so I'm not initiated in the secret benefits of running two operating systems simultaneously. To me it sounds like you're dragging an anchor up the stairs. But I'm probably just proving my ignorance saying this :-o

Well, virtual machines help me running Windows, which I need for one single program. I find VirtualBox to be very fast and functional as long as you have enough RAM (and the version which is not completely open source)

Oh, and for upgrading the firmware on my mp3 player... why, oh why, do these firmware programs only launch in windows??

Wow, another fellow Aussie. Good to see we're not as under-represented as I thought

There might soon be a few more of us.

For Software Freedom Day (last weekend), our local LUG "distributed" about 300CDs at Newcastle Uni and the local computer market. 50 of those CDs (for interested people with older machines) were Vector SOHO 5.8. see http://www.newcastlelug.org/

Wow, another fellow Aussie. Good to see we're not as under-represented as I thought

There might soon be a few more of us.

For Software Freedom Day (last weekend), our local LUG "distributed" about 300CDs at Newcastle Uni and the local computer market. 50 of those CDs (for interested people with older machines) were Vector SOHO 5.8. see http://www.newcastlelug.org/

This tempts me to try to get QUT to drop Redhat (and ADIOS) in favour of Slack (and by extension, Vector)

Wow, another fellow Aussie. Good to see we're not as under-represented as I thought

There might soon be a few more of us.

For Software Freedom Day (last weekend), our local LUG "distributed" about 300CDs at Newcastle Uni and the local computer market. 50 of those CDs (for interested people with older machines) were Vector SOHO 5.8. see http://www.newcastlelug.org/

...like me!Hey, the first week in ages that I missed the fair at Broadmeadow! Sorry to have missed your stall.

I have been using VL since January on my new computer that i bought in bits from that very computer fair! In fact, Vector Linux was the only distribution amongst 5 or 6 that would install on the new hardware that i had bought! I have not looked back to the other distribution that I had been using for years! It seems so....bloated now.

So chalk up another Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vector Linux user!

Since I have opened my mouth, I would just like to add that having used Linux for about 6 or 7 years now (and computers since my TRS-80 Model III Basic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_III), never has my computing experience been so smooth and trouble free. Thank you, and congratulations to all the people involved, including the contributors to this forum.

This tempts me to try to get QUT to drop Redhat (and ADIOS) in favour of Slack (and by extension, Vector)

The Uni event was not official, some of our LUG members are students and one is (I think) Engineering staff so we got to use a room there. I don't know what Linux the Uni uses (I didn't get to the event and none of my kids go to Newcastle Uni). In any case, go gently in trying to change officialdom.... Redhat is better than nothing!

Personally, I find the best way to have people try Vector (and I wish we had a more recent SOHO Live CD) is to suggest that it is the best distro for any box running at 1GHz or under. That is how it was part of the Software Freedom Day programme. Most of the people in LOGIN use *buntu or other Debian based distros, so most of the CDs given away were the latest Ubuntu.

...like me!Hey, the first week in ages that I missed the fair at Broadmeadow! Sorry to have missed your stall.

I have been using VL since January on my new computer that i bought in bits from that very computer fair! In fact, Vector Linux was the only distribution amongst 5 or 6 that would install on the new hardware that i had bought! I have not looked back to the other distribution that I had been using for years! It seems so....bloated now.

So chalk up another Newcastle, NSW, Australia Vector Linux user!

Since I have opened my mouth, I would just like to add that having used Linux for about 6 or 7 years now (and computers since my TRS-80 Model III Basic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_III), never has my computing experience been so smooth and trouble free. Thank you, and congratulations to all the people involved, including the contributors to this forum.